Study of an RNA helicase implicates small RNA-noncoding RNA interactions in programmed DNA elimination in Tetrahymena

Genes and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 2228-2241

  Aronica, Lucia ^a   Bednenko, Janna ^b   Noto, Tomoko ^a   DeSouza, Leroi V ^c   Siu, K W Michael ^c   Loidl, Josef ^d   Pearlman, Ronald E ^c   Gorovsky, Martin A ^b   Mochizuki, Kazufumi ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Heterochromatin; Noncoding RNA; RNA; Small RNA; Tetrahymena

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; RNA; RNA HELICASE; TWI1P PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHROMATIN; DOWN REGULATION; MACRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TETRAHYMENA;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMATIN; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, PROTOZOAN; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA HELICASES; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 50049120478     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.481908     Document Type: Article

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